No more snow days for kids

[Snowflakesandroses]

It’s been snowing pretty heavily here today and it’s due to snow again overnight and into tomorrow…my DP works in a school and was told that if the school has to shut tomorrow due to the snow that he’ll be expected to work from home using the online classroom and kids are expected to log on remotely to join in lessons, the same as they did during lockdown.

AIBU to think this is a step too far?

I teach. When we were online last year in lockdown during snow, I told my class that the internet would stop working in my village at lunchtime.

We love the excitement of an unexpected snow day!

I guess at the moment in particular it's wise to minimise lost teaching days, with people in and out due to Covid. Surely unplanned homelearning days would surely not be as well prepared and would therefore not take up a full school day...?

Otherwise, it would be a shame if the snow caused havoc with WiFi access.

I thought online teaching required days of preparation?

Why is it a step too far? Kids have missed loads of school over the past couple of years so should be learning from home if possible!
Because sod life being all about learning and working, kids need the unexpected to throw a bit of excitement in there!!

Over here, any snow days are added on to the end of the summer term. By then, you wish you’d just gone to school on the snow days.

We have snow several months of the year but snow days are rare (usually only when the electricity is off or the pipes have completely frozen, about once every few years). We just get on with it when it snows.

No snow days in this bit of Canada. It’s still an outdoor recess until it hits -20 with the windchill. The only day DS has ever had off during winter is when the school had to close because all the teachers got food poisoning at the Christmas party!

@Herecomesanothernamechange

YABU. Why is it a step too far?

Previously, logging on from home wasn’t a thing but now it is, so why have kids miss out on more learning when they have missed so much already?

Because snow!

We rarely have enough to have a decent snowball fight, it should be part of growing up.

we did get the snow but not as much as I hoped for so it was trudge through it and take the dc to school. School is up a steep hill but thankfully I'm close enough to walk. We do live up in the hills so do get lots of snow but it's rare we get a snow day and I only remember 1 week myself back in the early 80s where school was closed due to snow

Embracing technology lol… half arsed PowerPoint over zoom that’s glitching every two minutes , little Megan can’t mute herself and we can hear her dad watching this morning in the background, it’s ‘muummmm it’s not workingggg’ every 10 seconds, then Miss can’t get the zoom whiteboard to work, then it does and Kayden draws a Willy on it….

Such technical. So engaging.

( I work in education. Fucking nightmare!)